Michael Cook, Researcher from the Department of Computing was named by Forbes in their Top 30 under 30  list. Mike is currently “making a creative AI called ANGELINA that can design its own original games.

Michael Cook is a PhD student at Imperial College in London, where he also studied for an MEng Computing. He’s also a Research Associate at Goldsmiths College’s Computational Creativity Group.

For his PhD project he asks questions like: Can we evolve entire games from nothing? Can we start with literally nothing at all, except a few basic ideas about what a game contains, and ask a computer to design levels, populate them with characters, and wrap it all up in a ruleset that is both challenging and fun?

Find out more:

Games by ANGELINA: http://www.gamesbyangelina.org/

Forbes in their Top 30 under 30 : http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mlg45ehell/michael-cook-27/

Goldsmiths College’s Computational Creativity Group: http://ccg.doc.gold.ac.uk/